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Talk about taking a quote out of context. Best to just read the whole article, but right after he also says.

“We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

Herd immunity is also a moving target based on a lot of factors. Hopefully it doesn't reach measles level requirement.

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So, the honest and direct answer at the outset would have been to state his actual belief: “70 - 90%, but we don’t know”

If you’re massaging your answers to questions based on what people want to hear, you better hope they don’t find out.

We know now based on people getting it twice and new variants that look to be easier to get that the herd immunity strategy would just lead to more misery.

Herd immunity is literally the point of mass vaccines.

He's talking about just letting the virus run free with no attempt to vaccinate, lock down, or wearing masks. This is what a lot of people now think of that as. Basically what will be will be, the human species has survived this long. Yeah herd immunity is not that but that's obviously what a lot of media has portrayed it as lately.

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